Back to the original point of the thread, it's just made me realise I deliberately parked the car in Viewcraig St one night (completely unrelated to punting), as it was the closest to where I was going in town I could get before 6, without having to sell a kidney in the process.
Council estate, sure. But nothing about it gave me the impression it was at all rough, thus utterly no reservations about going back to get the car late at night - doing so with no issues at all.
The fact The Daily Express ran this a few years ago,
External Link/Members Only, and despite their pitiful best efforts, still didn't manage to make it seem that bad, even with all their, British-nationalist, authoritarian trash-embellishment - presumably purely done as a dig at the SNP for what's supposedly happening on their own governmental doorstep - tells you that it's pretty soft-core when it comes to Scottish housing schemes.
Moreover, some of the comments on this thread read as extremely right-wing, superior, middle-class, precious shite with an attitude of sheer, sneering snobbery - encouraged by lowbrow-patronising, primitively right-wing, sorry excuses for newspapers, such as the one above. Any area, Christ even any posh street, will have a few, but enough shitbags to give it a bad rep. And while I can't really judge it relative to other Edinburgh schemes, compared to what Glasgow has to offer, Dumbiedykes isn't even the tip of the iceberg.
In short, it sure as fuck ain't Possil.
